but those are one-hit wonders, fads...

they come and get every couple of years with no real staying power.

So... you're making fun of vacuity on Valleywag. Pot and kettle, meet Spinal Tap's Black Album.

Tina Turner said it years ago. I paraphrase: "I love Showbusiness! When I was coming up, you had to sing, you had to dance, you had to act, you had to have stage patter. Now you don't even have to sing to have a hit record."

I don't get it. I really don't.

I see the real problem being that the real celebrities are starting to work under the radar, particularly those that are trying to do good works (See: Clooney, Cheadle, etc) with the fame they have been given.

The overblown attention-whore is the tabloids' bread and butter. Without someone putting themselves out there yelling 'look at me! look at me!', they have nothing to write about without making things up (for which they could potentially get sued).

She's an attention whore who plays her breasts, just like the others in the article. I feel 10 IQ points dumber everytime I hear her name.

That caption is perfect as she has no talent.

I converted over to Julia's side last night. The TV deal seals it, she owns you guys and is much better at promotion than any of you could dream of being.

Keeping two ugly broads around is pretty svelte, too

The media keeps no talent sluts like her in the limelight just to show how powerful they are. At any moment, they can take her "celebrity" away from her at a drop of a hat and she'll be lucky to get into hotel bars at that point. It will be fun to watch.

Look for her name in about 9 months.

Man, you guys are angry

@MrMedia: They're not trying to prove how powerful they are; they know celebrities sell news, and they're willing to create celebrities for that purpose.

Or did you forget about Gawker and Julia Allison?

@tawni: I wouldn't go that far. She speaks well in front of a camara, and she's probably a good editor.

@sample032: *has a good editor.

Dear America,

FAIL.

@sample032: most of us can speak well in front of a camera. We're just all sloths who avoid the emptying of your brain as a result.

seeing her mug and reading her name makes me pray for one thing: 14:59. tick.

fgsfds

Is this what women in 21st century are suppose to be doing with their new freedoms? Is this what 40-50 years of feminism was for?

@Figaro: Freedom to be a dimwit, if that's one's choice, is an important thing.

@Figaro: Right, now that women have triumphed post-feminism and men can't complain about our career choices anymore...?

You beg the question, Julia: whence did celebrity evolve?

p.s. please, Julia, stfu 4ever.

The more I see JA coverage on Valleywag the more it looks like jealousy.

@Melissa Gira Grant: women have triumphed post-feminism

what do you smoke? I want some.

I think the reason she draws so much animosity is the perception that she represents an entire set of women - women that none of you have a snowball's chance in hell with.

So why not let loose with the sour grapes and bitter rejection? I totally feel you guys. Every time I see some 50-year old fart puttering along in his brand new Carerra S, I hate him too!

@Moonshine Mike: i think its called "irony".

@matto: I don't believe Ms. Grant to have the intelligensia to generate irony. If she does, then I am not obviously not smoking enough. Time to move to CA and work on my Glaucoma.

You know the worst part? We're all here like a bunch of yentas keeping her relevant.
The reality is this girl is talentless and is more known for being an air-head with boobs who dated Jakob and blogged about it. Really before that she was a nobody... Maybe this was her plan all along.
So for all the 'haters' here (me included), if you really want to make the girl with herpes dissappear... STOP TAKING ABOUT HER.
You see, being relevant is in the pageviews and seeing as this whore gets just about the same pageviews as Melissa sex entries that makes her.... You guessed it, relevant.
So I am not going to comment on her cum-sponged ass. She'll go away just like the rest.
BUT... Before I leave...
Julia, you are a talentless, gold-diggin, ugly tranny tramp. And oh, you have man-hands as well. And your dog is ugly... My last 2 cents on Julia. May she now go away.

@Moonshine Mike: if Melissa has her own intelligentsia, they probably can recognize when the word is used properly.

@matto: I spelled it wrong. sue me. But the irony of my comments eludes you as her irony eludes me. and may the circle be unbroken!

@matto: She draws my animosity for getting attention period. For being the person she's criticising in this post. You're probably correct about some people's animosity, but I think your assumption is too general.

@matto:
Ok, I agree with you in part... So much geek angst here because perhaps their worst fears about "the pretty ones" are realized every time JA is mentioned, despite all the supposed geek love from her direction. They don't want to be hosed.

Geek is just the new trendy cool now. I'd like to see her in a room full of Aspies.

See it for what it is; someone finding their niche.

@D IS FOR DENTATA: I agree; she has found her niche. The levels of both fascination and bitterness she can generate are astounding.

If it isn't paid-placement FB plugs, it is fugly JA topics.

Like the guy above said, "I don't get it. I just don't get it."

I'm not trying to be funny, but who the hell is she? No one can answer me. :-(

@Fidel on the Roof: She once owned a maple syrup conglemerate in new hampshire before selling it and creating the jump to conclusions mat.

@matto:

speak for yourself, my canadian gf is EXACTLY like julia allison. she sent me pics too!

@matto: I'll tell you why she rubs me the wrong way. Women try so hard to be taken seriously, yet men always want to insist that we don't belong in their club. Women like Julia give sexist men ammunition. They are "proof" that women are empty shells with makeup, cleavage and low IQs. I think her whole MO is tired and played out. It's 2008...enough with the dumb bimbo act.

@Buffy_Doo:

BING BING BING. We Have a winner; Tell her what she's won Bob!

This is EXACTLY what I have been trying to get across. You said it perfectly. Thank you =)

I would have to agree with @Buffy_Doo I don't think Julia Allison represents the actual tech/geek female population accurately at all because she has no substance. What was the last program she hacked?

@Buffy_Doo: I'm #3 to say it too... you hit it on the head.

She is just as "tech" as the drive-through girl at In N Out is.

Seriously. You find someone with bad enough taste to show some interest in you who is somewhat in "tech" and you can call yourself "tech?"

She should brand herself the queen of Doritos or something like that. She has just as much right to do that as she does "tech."

hmm, she has found a niche, but it feels fake. But that's what showbiz is. Finding a niche and exploiting it until the interest wanes. Props for that.

Perhaps ire is raised because these 3 are not the brightest lightbulbs and silicon valley is the one place where ugly people (with the exception of DC) can get rich/ famous/ whatever based on their brains. In the valley (maybe not as much on vallegwag) we praise people for their intellect, and rewards are supposed to be based on hard work, brains, and a little bit of luck, not tits, open mouths and niche that come along and secure funding instead of the next zuckerberg.

Some start-up should hire her for PR - she knows how to garner it.

@michaellamb: Uh, you know, Julia graduated from Georgetown. Her "persona" may be exactly that, did you ever stop and think that maybe she knows that being a smart girl just doesn't sell, and being the pretty yet vapid Oooh! Tech! girl does?

sure, but she's never said anything super intelligent that I've EVER seen. If you're smart, you can't be dumb all the time.

Besides, GWBush went to yale.

@It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week:

Uh, you know, she's neither.

@It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week: Being a smart girl doesn't sell? In what market does it not sell? New York? Hollywood? Smart sells in Silicon Valley. Ask Meg Whitman.

@Michaelamb W graduated from Harvard Business School as well. Degress mean nothing when they can be bought and sold.

Julia - stay in New York where everyone's an actor pretending to be something they're not.

Um Buffy, that was the point (if GW can get those degrees than anyone can). I was agreeing with you. The irony was for the work guy... might read the whole thread?

@michaellamb: and I was agreeing with you. I don't understand your last sentence and have too much work to do today so won't try to decipher. This will be my last post on this silly topic.

Next...

@Buffy_Doo: She's not in Silicon Valley. Smart women in Silicon Valley succeed in limited amounts, they got called cold and bitches because men get intimidated by them. Ask Marissa Mayer. You can't tell me it's not a misogynistic atmosphere, much more than it is a meritocracy.

She's a by-product of the Hiltonization of the entertainment industry, where it's clearly better PR to appear effortlessly inane than well-informed. I merely posit that behind closed doors she is much more intelligent and calculated that everyone presumes.

@It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week:

You are a lame ass if you believe any of that. And I know it's you writing this about yourself, Julia.